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The high price of green Heated driveway costs homeowner $43,000 in ECO taxes By Randy Wyrick Mountaineer Staff Writer An Arrowhead homeowner recently had to pay tens of thousands of dollars in ECO Build fees for a system to melt the snow in his driveway. The homeowner would prefer not to be identified, said local architect Scott Turnipseed, who walked the check for more than $43,000 into the Eagle County Building. The fees are part of the county’s ECO Build regulations, approved by the county commissioners in 2006. The regs are
designed to encourage energy efficient homes, or pay the consequences and the fees, said Adam Palmer, who coordinates the program for the county. In this case, the house is more than 9,000 square feet and the snowmelt system handles about 3,000 square feet of driveway and sidewalks. You’re allowed 200 square feet under the regs, Palmer said. Anything more than that costs you $16 a square foot. There are ways to reduce that by half, like installing solar/thermal and ground source systems to power the snowmelt systems, but $16 a foot is the baseline.
“It’s patterned after Aspen’s regulations and their green building code,” said Palmer. The fees are calculated by the cost of operating a snowmelt system for 20 years, based on today’s natural gas prices. So far, they’ve been paid by those building homes in places like Arrowhead, Bachelor Gulch and Beaver Creek – large homes in upscale neighborhoods, Palmer said. The fees have rolled up about $160,000 a year in both 2007 and 2008, Palmer said. Most of the money goes to the coun-
ty’s solar rebate program – helping home builders and home owners offset the cost of installing solar/thermal systems on new and existing homes. Those rebates are up to $4,000 per household, about half the cost of a solar/thermal system, said Palmer. “Those systems will meet 50-75 percent of the average family’s hot water needs,” said Palmer. The fees also fund grants to the local Habitat for Humanity chapter and the county’s quarterly community grants. The ECO Build committee decides who [See GREEN FEES, page 11]
THE UPDATE
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Stocks tumbled Wednesday, erasing most of a rally from the day before as a jump in government bond yields fanned worries that higher interest rates will sap strength from the economy. A steep drop in the price of the benchmark 10-year Treasury note pushed its yield up to 3.75 percent, up from 3.55 percent late Tuesday and the highest level since last November. That increase touched off fears that the government won’t be able to hold down interest rates long enough to allow the economy to recover. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 173.47, or 2.1 percent, to 8,300.02. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 17.27, or 1.9 percent, to 893.06. The Nasdaq composite index fell 19.35, or 1.1 percent, to 1,731.08.
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democratic lawmakers are pressing the Obama administration and members of Congress for federal loan guarantees to help the state out of a desperate, multibillion-dollar jam. California is not asking for cash, like [See THE UPDATE, pages 6-7]
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Denver Nuggets center Nene, of Brazil, reacts to being called for a foul against Los Angeles Lakers guard Derek Fisher during the first half of Game 5 in the NBA Western Conference basketball finals Wednesday in Los Angeles. AP photo.
Nuggets fever hits Valley for Game 6 By Beth Potter Mountaineer Staff Writer Nuggets fever is sweeping the Vail Valley as the Denver NBA team tries to stave off elimination tonight in the Western Conference Finals Game 6. The Nugs lost a close battle in Game 5 with a final score of 103-94. Friends commiserate with friends
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us tell you that the Denver Nuggets and the Los Angeles Lakers will play Game 6 for the Western Conference finals (best game of seven) in the NBA on Friday. Since it’s the first time in a looonngg time that the Nuggets have done so well in the play-offs, lots of usually nonbasketball fans are now following the games. [See NUGGETS GAME, page 10]
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Pellizotti wins Giro stage-17 Armstrong shows strength, finishes 10th There was the trademark glance over his shoulder. That famous upright stance on the pedals, and the fans cheering Lance Armstrong all alone on his way up the mountain. Only this time, Armstrong’s solo attack petered out after a few miles and the seven-time Tour de France winner finished 10th in the 17th stage of the Giro d’Italia on Wednesday, 1 minute, 59 seconds behind stage winner Franco Pellizotti. When Armstrong attacked on the uphill finish, he left the race leaders behind and got as close as 25 yards behind leader Pellizotti. “It was a nice try,â€? Armstrong’s team director Johan Bruyneel said. “Definitely he is coming to another level again. That’s exactly what I hoped for.â€? Armstrong is still regaining his form after 3½ years of retirement and breaking his collarbone in March. Until now, he has been riding in support of teammate Levi Leipheimer. But with Leipheimer out of contention in sixth place, 4:32 behind overall leader Denis Menchov, Armstrong can ride on his own. “Got a little antsy and went early after Pellizoti (who
won) but didn’t have the legs to catch him,� Armstrong wrote on his Twitter feed. “But I feel my condition is improving ok considering I drank beer for 4 years, crashed hard last month, and am an old dog.� Armstrong eventually dropped back for the rest of the climb behind defending Tour de France winner Carlos Sastre, with two-time Giro winner Gilberto Simoni in tow. Armstrong remained 12th, 12:17 behind. Franco Pellizotti attacked at the start of the final climb and the Italian with the Liquigas team finished 42 seconds ahead of Stefano Garzelli, with local favorite Danilo Di Luca third, 43 seconds back. Menchov crossed fourth, 48 seconds after Pellizotti. Menchov’s lead over Di Luca in the overall standings was reduced to 26 seconds and Pellizotti moved up from fourth to third, 2:00 behind. Stage 18 Thursday is a 113-mile rolling leg from Sulmona to Benevento. Only one more uphill finish remains, with stage 19 Friday heading up to Mount Vesuvius overlooking Naples. The race ends Sunday with a short individual time trial in Rome.
Justice nominee Yankee’s fan, popular with Braves
Cyclist retires after doping scandal
Wednesday morning President Obama, Joe Biden and Sonia Sotomayor walked into the White House’s East Room to thunderous applause. “I’m excited, too,� Obama said. “After completing this exhaustive process, I’ve decided to nominate an inspiring woman who I believe will make a great justice, Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the great state of New York.� The new Supreme Court justice nominee was later lightheartedly praised by President Obama for her injunction against owners from Federal District Court in 1995 that practically ended the baseball strike of the previous year. Sotomayor is an admitted Yankee’s fan, which is somewhat inescapable if you grew up in the Bronx as she did. She has also earned respect in Atlanta because the Braves went on to win the World Series the season the strike ended. Sotomayor may be well-liked in New York and Boston, but if her status as a Yankee’s fan hits the mainstream, she might not make any new friends in Boston.
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Disgraced Austrian cyclist Bernhard Kohl has announced his retirement, ending a controversial career marred by a doping scandal seen as a major blow to the sport. Kohl admitted to using the blood booster CERA at last year’s Tour de France and was subsequently banned for two years by Austria’s national anti-doping agency, NADA. In a statement on his Web site, Kohl said he wanted to stop living a “double life based on lies� and yet again apologized to his fans. Kohl said he took performance enhancers voluntarily because he was part of a system “in which you can’t win without doping.� “The clean sports hero we wish for is often just fiction,� Kohl said. “Somewhere along the way, talent, training and tough discipline just aren’t enough anymore.� Kohl finished third in the Tour and won the polka-dot jersey for best climber. Earlier this month, Austrian prosecutors said they
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